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Slashdot | Adrian Lamo Chars Hacking r Page 12 of 33 Re:Great Excuse (Score:5, Interesting) by hattig (47930) on Saturday September 06, @10:53AM (#6887147) (Last Joumal: Tuesday August 26, @08:53AM) Agreed. If he wanted to perform white hat hacking, he should have approached. the companies involved and asked for a job to test their security. Hell, he'd have earned money that way as well. But he did commit a crime - he broke into and entered their systems without permission. Sure, he did it for a good reason in his own head, and wasn't going to be malicious ... but it isn't as if he was doing the internet equivalent of rescuing the baby in a house fire. [ Reply to This | Pavent ] Re:Great Excuse (Score:5, Insightful) (#6887191) How different is this from the investigative reporters on your local news broadcast. In many cases a white hat my find that customer's CC numbers or SS numbers are accessable via an exploit or weak security. In a way, he/she would be helping the public by giving the company and opportunity to correct the situation or at least take it public. An investigating reporter may find that a company or governemnt office is throwing out sensitive info without shredding it or taking the proper preventative measures. If] am giving a company like Amazon my CC#, I want to oknow that they are going to protect that info. Who is going to watch/audit the company if they get lazy? { Reply to This | Pazent ] Re:Great Excuse by jjhlk (Score:1) Samrday September 06, @02:39PM Re:Great Excuse by mindstrm (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @02:42PM Re:Great Excuse by mindstrm (Score: 1) Saturday September 06, @02:44PM Re:Great Excuse by bitflip (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @03:00PM Re:Great Excuse by mariox19 (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @04:23PM © Lreply beneath your current threshold. Re:Great Excuse by themassiah (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @10:56AM o Re:Great Excuse by moonbender (Score:3) Saturday September 06, @11:32AM © 2replies beneath your current threshold. « Re:Gre: cuse by LostCluster (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @10:57AM o Re:Great Excuse by SSI Vegeto2001 (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @11:18AM = Re:Great Excuse by Shanep (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @12:34PM © lL reply beneath your current threshold. Re:Great Excnse by Spicerun (Score:1} Saturday September 06, @10:58AM e Re:Gre: cuse by AArmadillo (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @11:01AM © J reply beneath your current threshold. Re:Great Excuse (Score:5, Interesting) by moonbender (547943) <moonbender AT t-online DOT de> on Saturday September 06, @11:02AM (#6887197 (http://moonbender.host.sk/) So if someone had broken into my house without permission, then FBI(19-cv-1495)-1904 hitp://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/06/1325221 shtml?tid=123&tid=1 26 &tid=172 &tid=99 9/8/2003